31 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2016 · latest filed Oct 14, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$420K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$420K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
31 filings
$420K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
25 filings
$380K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 22 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 460113th CongressPatients' Access to Treatments Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 800113th CongressTo amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude customary prompt pay discounts from manufacturers to wholesalers from the average sales price for drugs and biologicals under Medicare.8 filingsthrough 2014
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: asd-healthcare.
21 filings
$370K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
113th Congress
A bill to amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude customary prompt pay discounts from manufacturers to wholesalers from the average sales price for drugs and biologicals under Medicare.
8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1600114th CongressPatients' Access to Treatments Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1392111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1765111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2002111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1845112th CongressMedicare IVIG Access and Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers Act of 20125 filingsthrough 2012
S. 960112th CongressMedicare IVIG Access Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5597111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2914110th CongressMedicare IVIG Access Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1919113th CongressSafeguarding America's Pharmaceuticals Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
S. 957113th CongressDrug Supply Chain Security Act3 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 3204113th CongressDrug Quality and Security Act2 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 905112th CongressTo amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude customary prompt pay discounts from manufacturers to wholesalers from the average sales price for drugs and biologicals under Medicare.2 filingsthrough 2011
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
9 filingsthrough 2016
Covered positions · 4 of 4 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
